Helene Elisabeth Heuser
- About me
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Helene Elisabeth Heuser is a PhD candidate at the International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen. Her dissertation focuses on future imaginaries in mainstream popular music towards the turn of the millennium. Her research interests encompass popular music studies and ethnomusicology, the history, aesthetics, and (gender-) politics of popular music, ecological values, and global imaginaries in popular culture, K-pop, world music, and digital cultures. Helene holds a Master of Arts in Musicology from the University of Cologne and a Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature and Musicology from the University of Bonn.
Dissertation Working Title: Millennium Pop – Ecology, Self-Spirituality and Globalization in Mainstream Music
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Claudia Bullerjahn
ORCID ID: 0009-0001-9194-6170
Research Gate Profil
- Contact
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helene.heuser@gcsc.uni-giessen.de
- Publications
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- Helene E. Heuser: Pop Avatars – A Fragmented History of Popular Music. In: KULT_online No 69 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.22029/ko.2024.1459
- (In preparation) Helene Heuser; Christina Vollmert Global Self Hypnosis: Memes & Mental Health. In: Schütze et al. (Ed.): Dank Images, Tiktok und Apokalypse. Bildhandel im Internet. München: Kopaed Verlag (Reihe Kunst Medien Bildung) 2024.
- Helene Heuser: „Alles ist rot und doch denk ich an blau“ – Experimentalchor Glossa und Improvisationskollektiv Nassau. In: MusikTexte – Zeitschrift für Neue Musik. 176, 2022.
- Helene Heuser: Körper – Klang – Materie: Das Festival für Immaterielle Kunst. In: MusikTexte – Zeitschrift für Neue Musik, 175, 2022.
- Helene Heuser: Out of Time. In: Gapefruits, Issue 6, Rhythm, 2022, S. 4-6.
- Helene Heuser: Diversitätsförderung in der freien Musik-Szene und eine Reihe an Nichtgleichungen. In: Kulturpolitische Mitteilung, Issue 172, I/2021, S. 62-64.
- Helene Heuser: Instruments on Instruments or How to Train Your Third Leg. In: Grapefruits, Issue 3, Instruments, 2020, S. 3-6.
- Presentations
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- 'Zoom In Zoom Out – Ecospirituality in the European Mainstream of Popular Music'. Presentation, 26.04.2024, Dark Green Religion in Europe: History and Impacts, Dangers and Prospects, IEG –Leipniz-Institut für Europäische Geschichte Mainz.
- 'Spiral, Loop, Revival – Navigating the Meta Realms of Internet Aesthetics'. Talk and Workshop with Christina Vollmert, 27.10.2023, Worklab II: How to Dank Images, Department für Kunst und Musik/ Universität zu Köln.
- 'Über Fanzines and Fan sein – Transdisziplinäres Schreiben über Musik'. 08.09.2022, Format, Güterbahnhof Bremen - Areal für Kunst und Kultur.
- 'Grapefruits. Fanzine about female*composers and sound artists'. Lecture with the members of the editorial team, 07.07.2022, Lecture Series 'Populäre Musik und Feminismus,' Musikwissenschaft/ Universität Siegen.
- 'Life is not a nightmare - Affirmation-Memes auf Instagram'. Talk and workshop with Christina Vollmert, 11.12.2021, Dank Images, Tiktok und Apokalypse. Bildhandeln im Internet, Department für Kunst und Musik/ Universität zu Köln.
- 'Grapefruits on Punk'. Lecture with the members of the editorial team, 19.11.2021, Fringe of the Fringe - Die Privilegien der Subkultur im Gedächtnis von Institutionen, IMAI - Inter Media Art Institute, Institute of Media and Cultural Studies /Heinrich Heine Universität Düsseldorf.
- 'Salsa Subjectivites - On the construction of a collective continental Latin American identity at Cologne’s Latin Party Radio Sabor'. Panel Talk and presentation of the documentary film Dis-placed with María Quirós- Fernández and Ani Petrossian, 13.03.2020, LAT CAR ICTM symposium on Time, Identity and Memory, Department Musicology/ Universidad de Ciencias y Artes de Chiapas.
- 'The Gender Switch - How Lucille became The Axe'. 29.03.2019, Klingende Bildkörper. Performanzen von Musik und Geschlecht in visuellen Kulturen, Historische Musikwissenschaft/ Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln.
- Research Interests
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history, aesthetics, and (gender-) politics of popular music
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ecological values, global imaginaries and planetary thinking
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theories and methodologies at the intersection of ethnomusicology and popular music studies
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music video and visual cultures
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digital cultures (internet aesthetics)
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- Teaching
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Co-Teaching:
'Adornos Musikdenken' SS24 mit Simon Tönies
Session: Engagement - Musik und Politik
- Memberships
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Associations
IASPM D-A-CH – International Association for the Study of Popular Music
GfPM – Gesellschaft für Popularmusikforschung
GMM – Gesellschaft für Musikwirtschafts- und Musikkulturforschung
GfM – Gesellschaft für Musikforschung
Research Groups
RA09 Ecology and the Study of Culture (GCSC) Co-Speaker
- Other
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Grapefruits – female* composers and sound artists (Editorial Team Member since 2019)
anwesend (2021) Editor and Initiator of the publication as part of the BTHVN2020 project “Wir bringen die Blase zum Platzen” in Köln 2020-2021